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Green Paper - Policy Options to Accelerate the Global Transition to Advanced Lighting.
(2014)
This paper describes issues that stall progress and possible options to accelerate successful programmes which can be replicated and scaled up at national, regional and global levels; and provides the foundation for dialogue ...
Light for Life: Identifying and Reducing the Health and Safety Impacts of Fuel-Based Lighting
(2014)
Energy efficient, off-grid lighting solutions offer the most promising and scalable means to eliminate adverse health outcomes associated with fuel-based lighting, while lowering the costs and reducing greenhouse-gas ...
Emerging Environmental Issues 2013 - A Compilation of Global Environmental Alert Service Bulletins
(2014)
GEAS is a mechanism for identifying and communicating early warning information on emerging issues in areas ranging from climate change and ecosystem management to environmental governance and resource efficiency. The ...
Phasing-out Methyl Bromide in Developing Countries: A Success Story and its Challenges
(2014)
This booklet addresses the efforts undertaken to phase-out Methyl Bromide in developing countries, the lessons learned and what is pending to reach final phase-out. It further analyses factors that may impact or put at ...
Trade and Green Economy: A Handbook - Third edition
(2014)
This handbook covers a wealth of new information, including the emergence of the green economy concept, the latest WTO jurisprudence, and increasingly important legal and policy linkages between trade and green economy ...
Prevention and Reduction of Food and Drink Waste in Businesses and Households: Guidance for Governments, Local Authorities, Businesses and Other Organisations. Version 1.0
(2014)
This Guidance is a key product of the Think.Eat.Save campaign and the FAO/UNEP Sustainable Food Systems Programme, as well as the SAVE FOOD Initiative. It provides clear and comprehensive steps for governments, businesses ...
South-South Trade in Renewable Energy: A Trade Flow Analysis of Selected Environmental Goods
(2014)
This study analyses trends and opportunities for trade among developing countries (i.e. South-South trade) in selected environmental goods, in order to assess the contribution such trade can make to a green economy transition. ...
UNEP Review of the Haiti Project Phoenix Municipal Waste Management and Waste to Energy Proposal - Final Report
(2014)
On 23 July 2012 the United Nations Environment Programme was requested by the Secretary of State for Energy for the Government of Haiti (now the Minister Delegate for Energy Security) to provide technical assistance to the ...
Storing and Disposing Excess Mercury in Central America: Advancing National Initiatives in Mexico and Panama
(2014)
In order to provide a better understanding of mercury storage and disposal issues at country level and to promote the environmentally sound management of excess mercury, Argentina and Uruguay were selected for the “Mercury ...
Assessment of the Mercury Content in Coal fed to Power Plants and study of Mercury Emissions from the Sector in India
(2014)
This report presents Indian power sector information which includes locations of major coal based power plants, installed power plant capacity and electricity generation by coal combustion in 2010 and projections for 2020 ...